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Imagining Differing Fictions and Other Bodied Beings

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This class is to think about the ways bodies of feminist and post-colonial science fiction contribute to imagining futures. How do fictional embodiments and relations serve as a space to model, combat, critique and inspire relevant action in the present moment? In particular, this class draws from authors who have occupied peripheral perspectives from mainstream science fiction and outside traditional networks of power. Based on conversational direction, theoretical texts will be chosen to complement subjects in the novels.

Conversational approaches will include speech as well as movement, material and visual dialogue. The class will look at strategies and ideas that arise from these conversations alongside new feminist materialist philosophies, which also seize the nature/culture binary as an important site for the dismantling of patriarchy.

For our first meeting, we will read The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (esp. chapters 1 and 2). We will focus on the sensuality of materials and landscape in The Dispossessed and how they contribute to structures of kinship and economy in the political worlds she describes. For our second meeting, we will read Dawn by Octavia Butler (chapters tba). The direction of discussion will be on the political implications of radically reorienting impulses and desires, as well as feminist perspectives on evolutionary biology.

The conversation will revolve around Dawn as it relates to Grosz's readings of Irigaray and Darwin, as a proposition for evolutionary change into unforseen differentiation. From her book Becoming Undone we will read:

thanks again everyone for the first meeting! for those who couldn't join, below you find a link to download the files with selected passages of The Dispossessed related to the topcis we discussed: furniture and objects, landscape, politics and laborhttps://anonfiles.com/file/fe39c8fa5f46f5bec644a4414dd7b64f

The Public School

In 2007, The Public School was initiated in Los Angeles in the basement of Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum. It is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.